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Since there is no free trial, and the game ain't perfect for everyone obviously, I made a "Let's play Fallen Earth" series. Which basically means that I'm creating a character from scratch, recording that, and putting up the normal gameplay on YouTube. It's not as interesting or flashy as showing just the best scenes from PvP or a dungeon or whatever, but I think it's a good way to get an impression on the game.

I'm normally not into creating movies nor is english my first language, but I guess for one or the other person it might be helpful nonetheless. Currently it got 9 or 10 parts equalling around 1 1/2 hours of gameplay. I already got a bunch of other parts but my knowledge in the matters of video compression is limited, so it takes a while to upload them.

In case you are interested, here is the link to the playlist with the videos:
www.youtube.com/watch

thanks for doing this, will definitely check it out.  i'm on the fence right now but i think i'm losing my balance on the side of buying it. 

I'm the guy doing the dungeon and pvp vids :P

but yeah this is a good idea, despite doing what i'm doing, i tend to hate looking for vids on an mmo and only finding the cool high level stuff, then playing and finding it all boring for months till you level.. but in all fairness, my pvp vid is only about a week into the game

 Awesome maji I am sure many will appreciate your efforts.

The quality of your videos are pretty good.  What program are you using?

I use Fraps to record on half-size, and then virtual dub to compress using the XviD MPEG-4 Codec on an average setting. That results in file sizes between 100 and 200 MB for 10 minutes. I read about other codecs beeing more efficient, but after fiddling around for a while I couldn't get any to work on virtual dub that keeps a good visual quality while beeing smaller than the one I used.

Takes a while to upload, but youtube let's you queue a lot of videos and then you can do something else. I just can't play that char while uploading stuff because it affects the latency too much. :)

 OMG Maji you sound like a university prof I had for economics. Its kinda creepy but good vids all the same.

Originally posted by parrotpholk

 OMG Maji you sound like a university prof I had for economics. Its kinda creepy but good vids all the same.

Actually I am your university prof.

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Maybe. Or I adopted that voice from my father who was a university prof. Or maybe it's because my thyroid gland is fucked up and the hospital doesn't want to give me stronger meds, which causes me to resemble a sloth most of the times. Or maybe all of them? Who knows. :P

Originally posted by maji

Originally posted by parrotpholk

 OMG Maji you sound like a university prof I had for economics. Its kinda creepy but good vids all the same.

 

Actually I am your university prof.

 

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Maybe. Or I adopted that voice from my father who was a university prof. Or maybe it's because my thyroid gland is fucked up and the hospital doesn't want to give me stronger meds, which causes me to resemble a sloth most of the times. Or maybe all of them? Who knows. :P

lol I liked the guy actually but that was 10 yrs ago too. Anyways back on topic!

Hey, dspawn, could you add a link to your videos as well?  This thread would then cover a wide range of gameplay...

What your doing is not new, its been done numerous times and unless its a fun hobby of yours its a useless effort. I am the leader of one of the largest guilds in the MMO scene, 2800 players that play over several MMO's. A group of "test monkeys", 138, tried Fallen Earth and the 15 page questionaire completed by the members had a unanimous result. Fallen Earth is lackluster, poor mechanics and sub-par grahpics, poor gameplay, poorly designed zones etc... It is a waste of time and money. Fortunately, my guild re-emburses the testers for the full monetary amount of a fail game but unfortunately for others, like you, your stuck with the tab. I'm not here to say "no" don't play that game, I'm here to tell you to research a little more into the game before wasting your money.

Originally posted by Qraye

What your doing is not new, its been done numerous times and unless its a fun hobby of yours its a useless effort. I am the leader of one of the largest guilds in the MMO scene, 2800 players that play over several MMO's. A group of "test monkeys", 138, tried Fallen Earth and the 15 page questionaire completed by the members had a unanimous result. Fallen Earth is lackluster, poor mechanics and sub-par grahpics, poor gameplay, poorly designed zones etc... It is a waste of time and money. Fortunately, my guild re-emburses the testers for the full monetary amount of a fail game but unfortunately for others, like you, your stuck with the tab. I'm not here to say "no" don't play that game, I'm here to tell you to research a little more into the game before wasting your money.

You are a guild leader of a huge awesome uber guild yet you make an account to post this and hide behind it while saying nothing other than bragging about such fictional guild. You reimburse your players when it was their choice to buy something? Gots to call bullshit here and say put up or shut up. People should research for sure and what maji is providing is a video diary for people to look at and decide if they like what they see.  Hide less maybe next time behind a newly created account. But then obvious troll is obvious and hopefully no one takes you seriously.  And while you google trying to find a guild to link to us please be at least somewhat entertaining doing it.

Originally posted by Qraye

What your doing is not new, its been done numerous times and unless its a fun hobby of yours its a useless effort. I am the leader of one of the largest guilds in the MMO scene, 2800 players that play over several MMO's. A group of "test monkeys", 138, tried Fallen Earth and the 15 page questionaire completed by the members had a unanimous result. Fallen Earth is lackluster, poor mechanics and sub-par grahpics, poor gameplay, poorly designed zones etc... It is a waste of time and money. Fortunately, my guild re-emburses the testers for the full monetary amount of a fail game but unfortunately for others, like you, your stuck with the tab. I'm not here to say "no" don't play that game, I'm here to tell you to research a little more into the game before wasting your money.

Sure, the "let's play concept" ain't new, but I didn't find such a thing yet for FE. Hobby? I don't know. But if I'd dislike doing that I wouldn't do it obviously. I appreciate your opinion, but that's exactly what it is: an opinion, not a fact. I'm playing the game now for about a week, and I am having fun. So up to now my money was very well invested. Sure, not everyone will have fun playing the game, that's why I make the video-series so people can have a look.

Thank you for a look at the game, it  has helped me decide on the purchuse.

Originally posted by parrotpholk

Originally posted by Qraye

What your doing is not new, its been done numerous times and unless its a fun hobby of yours its a useless effort. I am the leader of one of the largest guilds in the MMO scene, 2800 players that play over several MMO's. A group of "test monkeys", 138, tried Fallen Earth and the 15 page questionaire completed by the members had a unanimous result. Fallen Earth is lackluster, poor mechanics and sub-par grahpics, poor gameplay, poorly designed zones etc... It is a waste of time and money. Fortunately, my guild re-emburses the testers for the full monetary amount of a fail game but unfortunately for others, like you, your stuck with the tab. I'm not here to say "no" don't play that game, I'm here to tell you to research a little more into the game before wasting your money.

You are a guild leader of a huge awesome uber guild yet you make an account to post this and hide behind it while saying nothing other than bragging about such fictional guild. You reimburse your players when it was their choice to buy something? Gots to call bullshit here and say put up or shut up. People should research for sure and what maji is providing is a video diary for people to look at and decide if they like what they see.  Hide less maybe next time behind a newly created account. But then obvious troll is obvious and hopefully no one takes you seriously.  And while you google trying to find a guild to link to us please be at least somewhat entertaining doing it.

I dont think hes lying- I know of a Guild that also does this (they want to move into a game at the begining so they "send" members in with no risk to their wallets to get things started) These Guilds usually find a way to make money playing games which covers the costs... Its true, I have seen it myself but wont mention the Guild because they are involved in making RL money.

Yea Qraye is a joke and is full of shit. Typical troll on the forums.

for those unsure of buying the game, don't feed the trolls and just buy it.  I'm having more fun  than I've ever had in any other mmo.  I can't speak as to what endgame is like, maybe it sucks, but so far I love every aspect of the game minus the ai aggro radius.  

Originally posted by shepx22

Yea Qraye is a joke and is full of shit. Typical troll on the forums.

Why do you think this? You may be correct but I do know of Guilds that pay for their members subs to get started in a new MMO- Just curious as to what your reasoning is.

i'm not here to get into an arguement with you and its not my opinion, its the consensus of almost 140 players that have been playing MMO's since UO.....its more than opinion, its a result of experienced players, 27 of which ( and will never be named) are past and current MMO developers. Your making a fundamental mistake making those videos , your biased and take the viewpoint of perfect and not a neutral position. And one week is hardly enough experience to make any judgements for or against, your videos clearly show the lack of experince testing and be objective. There is a reason why Fallen Earth has less than 100k subs and is falling weekly by considerable amounts, so much so that the active purchase rate does not overcome the drop rate. Fallen Earth could have been a success, but it simply isn't, not by a longshot. Take care, become more mature and work on your objective perspective, good luck.

 Glad you know how many subs it has. And yet you are still here boasting but provide zero proof you are anything more than a troll. Please leave the board and thread if you can provide nothing useful as you have not and doubt you have played the game.